© Rahul Sharma, Avinash Singh 2020
R. Sharma, A. SinghGetting Started with Istio Service Meshhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5458-5_4

4. Istio VirtualService

Rahul Sharma1  and Avinash Singh2
(1)
Delhi, India
(2)
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
 

In previous chapter, we discussed the Istio architecture in detail. We worked with the control plane to configure the data plane. The decoupling between the two components allows both of them to operate independently, which leads to improved failure handling. The architecture enables a centralized operations team to configure the infrastructure with generic rules. Istio has different types of rules for different purposes. In this chapter, we will show how to work with the traffic management rules of Istio. Specifically, ...

Get Getting Started with Istio Service Mesh: Manage Microservices in Kubernetes now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.